Canadian Coverage of the TIFF Sucks!

I am dismayed at the Canadian (and American, I guess) coverage of the TIFF. Instead of focusing on authentic talent, they continue to write stories and photograph the McDonalds quality of the "film industry". This is a festival which should focus and showcase raw talent; to give a chance to the lesser known artists (and to celebrate those who are profound), film makers and directors from different countries and languages, etc. Instead we need to read about Paris Hilton crashing a TIFF party in today's newspaper. Can someone send me a Barf Bag? (free present today on Facebook, I need one, for real). 

I am also greatly disappointed at the fact that Canadian Press (and American Press, I guess) seem incapable of following any film that comes from outside Canada or the US. What a disgrace. This is an International film festival. This sort of coverage certainly detracts from the "prestige" of the TIFF. It has become a watered down festival whose main goal is to focus on those who won the popularity contest in North America. I am not interested in this, in the slightest. Perhaps I have a New York attitude where celebrities are sighted all the time, and NO ONE cares! I walked past Sex and the City's Sarah Jessica Parker on 2nd Avenue on my way to work one morning...there she was, no disguise, just walking her kid...and NO ONE cared.

I want to learn, read about, hear more about, and see films which showcase raw and authentic talent such as Isabelle Huppert's performance in last night's "Un Barrage Contre Le Pacifique", which I attended, and which she attended and spoke at. Sadly the press did not spend one second on her or her film (which represented both France and Cambodia) despite the fact that she is among one of the greatest actors of her generation and her career has spanned over 30 years, and, is the only actress to ever win twice at Cannes. 

Or Deepa Mehta whose film "Water" opened the TIFF last year which was a big deal seeing as she is a Female director, a Canadian director (she emigrated to Canada from India) whose film was entirely in Hindi, not English. This year she had "Heaven on Earth" in the TIFF which was not even mentioned for a second.

The point is:
Soon the TIFF will lose it's "character" if reporters and journalists continue to treat it like this and pay attention to utter crap. We want to see, hear, and read about INTERNATIONAL film makers and actors, who have made an imprint on WORLD CINEMA - not hear about those on the cover of last week's gossip rags.